October 4, 2026
5:00pm Eastern Daylight Savings Time
Discord: Valar Guild/meeting_place
[7:54 AM]Varda: Ok, of those that play LotRO and might participate in a Ride, the plan is to gather outside West Bree Gate on the hill as usual, handily close to the vault for fireworks. The first Ride is at noon Eastern time (11 AM Central). [7:56 AM]Varda: The second ride is usually at 5 pm Eastern time (4 pm Central) but the meeting is at that time. May I suggest an hour early, if anyone can make that? 4 PM Eastern (3 PM Central). [7:57 AM]Varda: After the meeting might be possible but iffy. That could be 6 PM Eastern (7 PM Central). Not really wanting to do that. [8:04 AM]Varda: Please mention it here or to Varda wherever if you would like to show up for the noon or 4 pm Eastern. I expect to be there for both times to accommodate time zones and schedules of the membership. [10:29 AM]Arien Valar: i ll be there for the 4 pm eastern ..that is 9 pm European time? [10:31 AM]Sandalf13: I intend to attend for the regular 1500 MST (1700 EST) meeting.' [10:52 AM]Varda: The Riders of the Nooning are starting to collect at the West Gate of Bree now. [12:31 PM]Varda: Earendil, Fangorn, and Varda have visited Bree, Michel Delving, Thorin's Hall, and Rivendell. [12:31 PM]Varda: Happy 29th Anniversary, Valar Guild! [1:55 PM]Cenedra: I heard there was a meeting!!! [1:56 PM]Varda: Hi! [1:56 PM]Varda: Not for a bit yet, but it's the last day of the 29th Anniversary chat marathon! [1:57 PM]Varda: Couple of hours to the meeting [2:00 PM]Cenedra: Ok, in 2 hrs. it will be 10pm here in England. If I don't make it, Happy Anniversary! [2:43 PM]Varda: You already made it to the chat marathon! Huzzah! And good luck! [2:55 PM]Varda: Arien and I are at the West Gate of Bree, a tad early. Earendil and Fangorn hope to join us soon. Anyone else is welcome if available, and we can help you join us if you have to come in late. [2:55 PM]Varda: Simple Rally Horns are available, and hunter guides. : ) [2:58 PM]Varda: Yep, gang is coming in. [2:59 PM]Varda: Leod just showed up too. [4:01 PM]Varda: Aiya! [4:01 PM]Varda: We are done in Rivendell, Great job gang!!
[4:01 PM]Varda: Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo! [4:02 PM]Léod [44th], : It was fun!! [4:04 PM]Treebeard: Hello 🙂 [4:04 PM]Arien Valar: Aiya all 🙂 [4:05 PM]Arien Valar: nice to interact with other , unrelated gamers , too
[4:06 PM]Varda: Membership: [4:06 PM]Varda: Thank you all! That was a lot of fun. : ) [4:06 PM]Léod [44th], : There were some kind audience members! [4:06 PM]Varda: You are all a delight [4:06 PM]Varda: True! They deserved their pipeweed. : ) [4:06 PM]Varda: Sometimes we also bring drinks but it is hard on the view! [4:07 PM]Varda: We had a great group for the 4 pm Ride! [4:07 PM]Varda: Leod, Fangorn, Arien, Earendil, and Varda [4:07 PM]Varda: We hit all the main spots and Arien also found the river of Rivendell. [4:08 PM]Varda: Earendil took lots of screenies [4:08 PM]Varda: Here's hoping others took a few too! [4:08 PM]Arien Valar: refreshing dip after the fireworks ! [4:08 PM]Varda: Email me [4:08 PM]Varda: Had to remove all that smoke! [4:09 PM]Varda: One at a time on the screenies please. My email is already groaning that it's at 97%. : ) [4:09 PM]Varda: Just your best! [4:09 PM]Arien Valar: I forgot how to clear the screen dry so i took none [4:10 PM]Sandalf13: Aiya All! [4:10 PM]Varda: It changed with different computers. I was having trouble too. [4:10 PM]Varda: Aiya Sandalf : ) [4:11 PM]Arien Valar: but on other news .. Bruce and I will be in Germany from Wednesday but we are leaving for the airport on Tuesday [4:11 PM]Varda: How exciting! [4:11 PM]Varda: Fly well. : ) [4:11 PM]Arien Valar: we will stay six nights and then be back the week after 🙂 [4:11 PM]Arien Valar: thank you [4:11 PM]Varda: Did his computer ever get fixed? Reformat maybe? [4:12 PM]Sandalf13: Have a safe trip! [4:12 PM]Varda: Here's hoping you get to use a comp on the trip if only to say hi. : ) [4:12 PM]Arien Valar: no he chose not reformat his pc , but he got stuff fixed with his providers where the passwords got stolen] [4:12 PM]Varda: Great! [4:13 PM]Varda: Might need it taken in to make sure any nasty stuff is removed. Good idea now and then anyway. [4:13 PM]Arien Valar: he has not his full dischord account back but he has access to the dischord channel he uses with his friends for racing and things [4:13 PM]Varda: Passwords are a good thing to change, aye! [4:13 PM]Varda: O good. : ) [4:13 PM]Varda: Did he see the Discord help section? Did it help? [4:14 PM]Varda: It's on the browser, so he doesn't need to be in Discord to use it. [4:06 PM]Varda: True! They deserved their pipeweed. : ) [4:06 PM]Varda: Sometimes we also bring drinks but it is hard on the view! [4:07 PM]Varda: We had a great group for the 4 pm Ride! [4:07 PM]Varda: Leod, Fangorn, Arien, Earendil, and Varda [4:07 PM]Varda: We hit all the main spots and Arien also found the river of Rivendell. [4:08 PM]Varda: Earendil took lots of screenies [4:08 PM]Varda: Here's hoping others took a few too! [4:08 PM]Arien Valar: refreshing dip after the fireworks ! [4:08 PM]Varda: Email me [4:08 PM]Varda: Had to remove all that smoke! [4:09 PM]Varda: One at a time on the screenies please. My email is already groaning that it's at 97%. : ) [4:09 PM]Varda: Just your best! [4:09 PM]Arien Valar: I forgot how to clear the screen dry so i took none [4:10 PM]Sandalf13: Aiya All! [4:10 PM]Varda: It changed with different computers. I was having trouble too. [4:10 PM]Varda: Aiya Sandalf : ) [4:11 PM]Arien Valar: but on other news .. Bruce and I will be in Germany from Wednesday but we are leaving for the airport on Tuesday [4:11 PM]Varda: How exciting! [4:11 PM]Varda: Fly well. : ) [4:11 PM]Arien Valar: we will stay six nights and then be back the week after 🙂 [4:11 PM]Arien Valar: thank you [4:11 PM]Varda: Did his computer ever get fixed? Reformat maybe? [4:12 PM]Sandalf13: Have a safe trip! [4:12 PM]Varda: Here's hoping you get to use a comp on the trip if only to say hi. : ) [4:12 PM]Arien Valar: no he chose not reformat his pc , but he got stuff fixed with his providers where the passwords got stolen] [4:12 PM]Varda: Great! [4:13 PM]Varda: Might need it taken in to make sure any nasty stuff is removed. Good idea now and then anyway. [4:13 PM]Arien Valar: he has not his full dischord account back but he has access to the dischord channel he uses with his friends for racing and things [4:13 PM]Varda: Passwords are a good thing to change, aye! [4:13 PM]Varda: O good. : ) [4:13 PM]Varda: Did he see the Discord help section? Did it help? [4:14 PM]Varda: It's on the browser, so he doesn't need to be in Discord to use it. [4:14 PM]Arien Valar: yeah i think he s sorting it, it just might need some time to sort out] [4:14 PM]Varda: Aye [4:14 PM]Arien Valar: aiya Irmo! [4:15 PM]Irmo: Aiya old friends, just a quick hello before I go to bed. Tomorrow resuming to pack our household for the moving/emigration. But I just hopped in to say hi🤩 . [4:15 PM]Varda: Aiya Irmo! Happy 29th Anniversary! [4:15 PM]Varda: Here's hoping the weather is beautiful in the new digs! [4:16 PM]Irmo: 29th is quite an achievement, congrats to y'all! [4:16 PM]Varda: And hi to Miriel! [4:16 PM]Léod [44th], : Aiya! [4:16 PM]Arien Valar: where are you moving to , irmo/ [4:16 PM]Arien Valar: .? [4:16 PM]Varda: It's also your achievement. Thanks to all of you! [4:17 PM]Irmo: Lanzarote/Canary Islands/Spain (same longitude as San Antonio Tx Arien [4:17 PM]Treebeard: Happy 29th Anniversary of the Valar Guild to EVERYONE 🙂 [4:17 PM]Varda: What Treebeard said. : ) [4:17 PM]Arien Valar: nice :d [4:17 PM]Sandalf13: I second that. [4:17 PM]Sandalf13: 😉 [4:18 PM]Treebeard: I'll give you a lot of Lattitude on that assessment 🙂 [4:18 PM]Varda: heh [4:18 PM]Varda: Eonwe has to work, but he said hi and left us his gaming report when we get around to it. [4:18 PM]Irmo: There is not latitude like longitude Fangorn 😜 [4:19 PM]Varda: The Long and Short of it. [4:19 PM]Irmo: Prewcisely [4:19 PM]Treebeard: ...and Longger yet [4:19 PM]Irmo: Well, goodnight all! Happy anniversary! [4:19 PM]Varda: Rest well! And have a great move! [4:19 PM]Arien Valar: good night, Irmo and good luck with moving and great start in ur new place! [4:20 PM]Sandalf13: Good luck, Irmo! [4:20 PM]Varda: It is really good to see so many that have been with us so long, and how great people still find us somehow! [4:21 PM]Treebeard: Yes. Only Good Luck to us all ! [4:21 PM]Varda: That was a lot of Membership news. Any more that we want to bring up? : )
[4:22 PM]Varda: Web News: [4:23 PM]Varda: We have more on the Anniversary page, with more coming. [4:23 PM]Varda: Eonwe sent in a couple of stories in the Narn I Auros series this past week: [4:23 PM]Varda: Narn I Auros - Served Cold [4:23 PM]Varda: Facades [4:24 PM]Varda: He has more in store and might even be in my email at the moment. [4:24 PM]Varda: Speaking of... [4:24 PM]Varda: Arien sent in a story today! [4:24 PM]Varda: I hope to be able to bring it to you, sorry it was not as timely done as would be preferred, but it's coming! [4:24 PM]Varda: An Apple's Adventure [4:25 PM]Varda: I am sure you will all enjoy it. : ) [4:26 PM]Varda: Grab a tasty beverage and we'll move on to
[4:26 PM]Varda: Gaming! [4:27 PM]Varda: Asking Pallando about EVE Online [4:27 PM]Varda: He may reply in a bit when he is loose to type. [4:27 PM]Varda: From Eonwe:
[4:27 PM]Varda: World of Warcraft: [4:28 PM]Varda: This week's bonus event: World Quests. [4:28 PM]Varda: This week's PvP Brawl: Deep Six. [4:28 PM]Varda: The Darkmoon Faire is this week. [4:28 PM]Varda: (so many tabs open!) [4:29 PM]Varda: Brewfest ends Tuesday (last full day is Monday). [4:29 PM]Varda: Patch 12.1.5 is coming October 13th. [4:29 PM]Varda: Check out the update notes . [4:30 PM]Varda: WoW: Forever Class Deep Dives are up for the Priest and Warrior [4:31 PM]Varda: as well as the Hunter and Druid. [4:32 PM]Varda: Some of our members are playing World of WarCraft: Forever. Eowyn said it's very much like early WoW. Faramir is also trying it out. [4:32 PM]Varda: Anyone else? It is still in Beta. [4:32 PM]Varda: Check out the second Episode of the WoW: Forever podcast speedrunning classes [4:33 PM]Varda: See WoW Weekly for anything not mentioned above. [4:33 PM]Varda: Check out this week's hotfixes. [4:33 PM]Arien Valar: i ll give it a go , both my classic guild and my retail friends are going there [4:34 PM]Varda: Interesting! Would love to hear your review when you are ready! [4:35 PM]Arien Valar: I am curious how it ll play out 🙂 I am not in the beta and have no ambience for it but i ve seen some videos of course .. but i prefer getting my own impressions# [4:35 PM]Varda: That is the best. : ) [4:36 PM]Varda: Even though I used to hit all the LotRO betas. Stopped finally, as so many nifty stories in beta were truncated immensely in the roll-out.
[4:36 PM]Varda: Hearthstone: [4:36 PM]Varda: Patch 36.6.3 is out. [4:37 PM]Léod [44th], : It's no fun to find that out when you've played the beta and knew what the original idea was. [4:37 PM]Varda: Aye. Disappointment. And they had some good stuff! Glad at least some of it made it in, though. 🙂 [4:37 PM]Léod [44th], : I stopped playing betas for that and other reasons. Won't do it again. [4:38 PM]Varda: I did stop, but won't say I'd never do it again. Just seems to be the case. [4:38 PM]Léod [44th], : Fair. Maybe I'll stop saying that. LOL [4:38 PM]Arien Valar: *pats Leod" [4:38 PM]Varda: hehe - but I haven't in years. So, may be out of the habit. [4:38 PM]Léod [44th], : mollified [4:38 PM]Varda: 🙂
[4:39 PM]Varda: Starcraft 2: [4:39 PM]Varda: A new patch is on the PTR [4:39 PM]Varda: So much for their abandoning SC2. 😉 [4:40 PM]Varda: Valarites that I know of that played StarCraft 2 this past week: [4:40 PM]Varda: Eowyn, Fangorn, Faramir, Varda
[4:40 PM]Varda: Heroes of the Storm: [4:40 PM]Varda: A new patch is out.
[4:41 PM]Varda: Lord of the Rings Online: [4:41 PM]Varda: (The place the largest number of us seem to hang out.) [4:42 PM]Arien Valar: for some odd reason .... [4:42 PM]Varda: The next expansion, Wolves of Mordor, has been announced with a release date of October 21st [4:42 PM]Varda: Tolkien fans, what a shock. ; ) [4:42 PM]Varda: Check out the FAQ. [4:43 PM]Varda: Some of us have already done the pre-purchase. It went well for Fangorn and myself, the stuff popping up right away. [4:43 PM]Varda: There are people already trying out the new Neighbors fun around their houses. [4:44 PM]Léod [44th], : Did you buy Regular, Collector's, or Ultimate edition? [4:44 PM]Varda: Ultimate [4:44 PM]Varda: As a Lifer, it's our way of supporting the game. [4:44 PM]Léod [44th], : Was it worth it? I'm still considering. [4:44 PM]Varda: and we get more goodies! [4:45 PM]Varda: If one has the money available, I like to go for the Ultimate every time. That's for the individual who knows his own budget better than I do to decide. [4:45 PM]Varda: (Elves say both no and yes.) [4:45 PM]Varda: It's a hefty chunk but it has a lot. [4:45 PM]Léod [44th], : Ok, I was curious. [4:45 PM]Léod [44th], : Thank you for answering. [4:46 PM]Varda: I find it worth doing. And we did the Ultimate for Fangorn also. [4:46 PM]Varda: Lord of the Rings Online players this past week:
Peregrin branch:
Glamdring branch:
Angmar branch:
Mordor branch:
[4:46 PM]Varda: That list may need an update after the Rides, but that was true this morning. : ) [4:47 PM]Varda: Glad to see Morwe felt well enough to come online! [4:47 PM]Varda: Arien needs added to the Peregrin list. (Note: done) [4:47 PM]Varda: (note for the Transcript) [4:48 PM]Varda: Any other comments or requests or suggestions? [4:48 PM]Varda: What's a good time of day for folks to play in LotRO? [4:49 PM]Varda: Falco managed to join me in a raid, Folly of Nagakhedi with friends. : ) [4:49 PM]Sandalf13: I was in Peregrin yesterday. [4:49 PM]Varda: Very glad to have him along! [4:49 PM]Varda: Not in kin, but that is good to hear, Sandalf! [4:49 PM]Léod [44th], : Afternoon and Evening on weekdays. Saturdays and Sundays are too hard to predict. [4:49 PM]Varda: I could mention a number of others not in kin: Nob, Nimrodel, others, but that gets difficult. [4:50 PM]Varda: Thank you, Leod. [4:50 PM]Varda: Are you on Central? [4:50 PM]Léod [44th], : Eastern [4:50 PM]Varda: Ah hah! Convenient as that is the same as /servertime in LotRO. : ) [4:50 PM]Varda: Thank you. [4:51 PM]Varda: Eonwe has been working on the kin picture. It's quite a task and he really deserves some thank you's at the end of this! [4:52 PM]Varda: We'll still be taking Tolkien Site stuff all of October for the Anniversary, as it's so hard to get it in on time. [4:52 PM]Varda: Including Arien's Apple story. : ) [4:53 PM]Varda: She got hers in right on time: today! [4:53 PM]Arien Valar: Thank you indeed , Eonwe ! I had a look at his screenshot# [4:53 PM]Varda: Glad you mentioned. Looks as if Falco sent in a shot too! [4:53 PM]Arien Valar: sorry for being a bit late but with my rotas and being worn out after the hacker incident I just could not bring mjyself to finish it earlier#] [4:54 PM]Varda: You did great. I need to apologize for not getting it online today. It will go up! [4:54 PM]Arien Valar: 🙂 [4:54 PM]Varda: Main thing, you did it despite all the craziness! [4:54 PM]Varda: On to
[4:55 PM]Varda: Tolkien! [4:55 PM]Varda: Did anyone have a topic they'd like to bring up?
[4:55 PM]Varda: If not or in between, we are the Valar Guild. Why did we go with such a name? Some say it is arrogant of us. [4:56 PM]Varda: We sure didn't change it. : ) [4:57 PM]Arien Valar: Never looked at it as arrogant .. but then i only know that name and hey , you are my online home and have been for 20 years 😄 [4:57 PM]Varda: So glad to have you! [4:57 PM]Varda: I don't see it as arrogant either. : ) [4:57 PM]Varda: Some say our taking those names for ourselves is arrogant. [4:58 PM]Varda: Hey, I had to work for mine. ; ) [4:58 PM]Sandalf13: May I ask who are the "some"? [4:58 PM]Arien Valar: so didi I 🙂 [4:58 PM]Varda: Anyway, the short answer is that Eru-(Valar) picked the name. [4:58 PM]Varda: Are you aware of "World Chat"? That's what they call it in LotRO and there are similar chats in other games. [4:59 PM]Sandalf13: No...s this is news to me. [4:59 PM]Varda: Trying to do a recruiting message brings all sorts out of the woodwork. 😉 [4:59 PM]Varda: Many of us turn off World Chat because it is often toxic. But a recruiter needs to check it. [5:00 PM]Varda: Peregrin server has one of the least toxic. : ) [5:00 PM]Varda: Watching it tells me some folk that we will never want to invite to our group. : ) [5:00 PM]Varda: But there are also some very fine people to be found there. [5:00 PM]Varda: Anyway, that is the "who". [5:01 PM]Varda: Valar refers to being top-notch. : ) [5:01 PM]Varda: Saying Tolkien Guild is just not that distinctive. [5:01 PM]Varda: The Valar try to build, create. [5:01 PM]Léod [44th], : I was on Glamdring the other day and was watching world chat and, Ew boy! [5:02 PM]Varda: ouch. Glamdring is one of the worst. [5:02 PM]Varda: I have at least a Fainan on all the servers, even if we have no kin, to protect my main name. : ) [5:03 PM]Varda: A guild's job is to build, create. [5:03 PM]Léod [44th], : Peregrin is much preferred by this mortal progenitor of kings. [5:03 PM]Varda: And we do! [5:03 PM]Varda: I agree with you completely. [5:04 PM]Varda: We make a Tolkien Site that covers the territory that usually takes a whole group for just one part. [5:04 PM]Varda: Stories would be a whole website, dedicated only to that. [5:04 PM]Arien Valar: yeah with all the stories, aricles , poets and other artwork we carry on or try to carry on what Tolkiens Middlearth is about [5:04 PM]Varda: Just bust in please while I'm typing. It is not in the least rude when typing here. [5:04 PM]Varda: Arien's got it! [5:05 PM]Varda: If the words typed across each other as sound does, it would be rude. [5:05 PM]Arien Valar: and if film creators like peter jackson use the site as a resource than somebody must do it right 🙂 [5:05 PM]Varda: This has happened. [5:05 PM]Léod [44th], : Really?!? [5:05 PM]Varda: We are in the process of bringing it more up to date. [5:05 PM]Varda: Leod, yes, really. [5:06 PM]Sandalf13: Wow. [5:06 PM]Léod [44th], : That's amazing. [5:06 PM]Varda: We are the jumping off point of numerous other sites. Tolkien Gateway is one. That founder used to come to our meetings. [5:06 PM]Varda: We were nearly the only game in town back then. [5:06 PM]Varda: But by the movie time, there were many more. Good thing! [5:07 PM]Varda: We need to get in there and keep our site the best it can be for research. [5:07 PM]Varda: Our Articles section is the heart and soul of the Site. The rest came along as we found the desire to have them. [5:07 PM]Varda: Very cool when Glorfindel-V made our first music. : ) [5:08 PM]Varda: His voice is good, and he used a synthesizer that worked well with online stuff. [5:08 PM]Varda: So we've expanded into all sorts of things. [5:09 PM]Varda: We have a number of articles with just place holder short articles or even just names to let the membership know we could use an article there. [5:10 PM]Varda: And we can always use the fun stuff like stories, poetry, art, and so on that you see on our site. [5:10 PM]Léod [44th], : That's a clever way to get people to write things. Good idea. [5:10 PM]Varda: Anyway, in the books, the Valar were the ones that made the main things like air or water. [5:11 PM]Varda: The Maiar saw the neato main things and added to them to make great wonders. They would pick their favorite and dig in there. Thus, a Maia of Ulmo might be very into making beautiful springs. [5:12 PM]Varda: And of course the First and Second-born and the Adopted Children added great things. [5:12 PM]Varda: Elves that worked with trees, even taught them to talk. [5:12 PM]Varda: Dwarves carefully tending crystals in a cave. [5:12 PM]Varda: And I am still talking at 12 minutes overtime, as Fangorn gently reminded me. [5:13 PM]Sandalf13: It is always a pleasure to hear from you, Varda! [5:13 PM]Varda: We can continue if we wish in After-meeting, but free up those that really need to leave. [5:13 PM]Varda: the gavel taps the hammerpad and wakes it up [5:13 PM]Varda: clonk!
[5:13 PM]Varda: After-meeting! [5:13 PM]Léod [44th], : This has been fun. See you next time! [5:14 PM]Varda: Please feel free to add your own thoughts! [5:14 PM]Varda: Namarie those that are leaving. [5:14 PM]Sandalf13: Namarie,, Leod [5:14 PM]Treebeard: Have a happy and productive week! And Namarie! [5:14 PM]Varda: I didn't mean to hog the talk. : ) [5:14 PM]Sandalf13: Namarie, Treebeard! [5:14 PM]Arien Valar: see you next time indeed 🙂 probably will say hi next sunday by mobile dischord 🙂 [5:14 PM]Varda: That would be great! [5:14 PM]Arien Valar: Namarie! [5:14 PM]Varda: We need your sunlight. : ) [5:15 PM]Varda: May your travel go well! [5:15 PM]Sandalf13: Namarie, Arien! Safe travels! [5:15 PM]Arien Valar: Thankies" [5:41 PM]Sandalf13: Namarie, all! I too must be off to get ready for the week. Stay healthy and happy!!! 🙂 [5:50 PM]Varda: happy happy joy joy [5:50 PM]Varda: I'm off for now. Need the break. [7:28 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Aiya, and happy anniversary! Reading up. [7:39 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Will Irmo be using the Olore Malle to switch continents? [7:42 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I did log into the Forever Beta myself, but only to try an early design for my upcoming Skyborne 🙂 I've no interested in creating characters that are going to be wiped in a month anyway. [7:50 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: So the Valarguild was one of the first in the field, and still one of the most comprehensive Tolkien communities around. Sounds like the name has very much been earned. [7:52 PM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Sorry my art's not done yet. It feels like the entire year has been more overwhelming for me than usual, when it comes to online and free time stuff, and this past week I was actually somewhat ill. Will continue working on it this week, hopefully as soon as possible 🙂 [October 5, 2026 [2:22 AM]Eönwë Valar: Heya all. Sorry I missed the Anniversary meeting and the rides in LotRO. Hope they turned out well. [8:49 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Whew, many sleeps. Alright, heeere is my...
[8:49 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Personal gaming report: [8:50 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: For (non)flashgaming: Plenty of smaller games I've done before and linked before this week, but one of them I sat down and played all over again just for the fun of it! [8:52 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Hook is a minimalistic puzzle game where you have to unentangle hooked lines in a bunch of levels. [8:53 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Press the connected circles one at a time to pull back each hook to not touch any of the others, or the level resets! [8:53 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Later on, a bit of timing becomes necessary as lines are also moving around the board. [8:53 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: As well as figuring out which circle belongs to which hook 🙂 [8:56 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Blizzard gaming: [8:59 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Hearthstone: [Level 121 now on the reward track! Expansion is coming soon, so we'll see how far we go. Probably won't make it to 150 this time. But that's ok, 1 level away from being able to buy another skin. [9:00 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Black Market is almost over, with a short grace period where you can haggle for what remains after you're no longer able to earn more currency. [9:00 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I have enough currency to buy the remaining packs, but I'm curious to see what the haggling looks like, so I'm holding to it for now 🙂 [9:01 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Looks like a new quest event is about to open up too, so this really was just a one-off. [9:01 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: I did get the card back for october along the way, based on Kazakus the cartel-leading magic dragon. [9:03 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Brawl this week is A Dark Recipe. Standard class-based recipes whenever a new expansion comes out, using that expansion's cards, though it feels a bit too early compared to when the expansion actually comes out. And with only the 9 original classes available, it might only be "a taste" indeed, as the loading screen says. [9:05 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: That said, given the context, I was eager to try out the Ramen yogg-saron portrait for mage, so I went with the mage recipe. Turned out pretty good (and dang, that skin just looks so good) with, from what I've seen, a classic mage spell deck with cards to cheapen your spells and flamewakers to do extra damage with them. [9:09 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Warcraft Rumble: [No new level or upgrades this week. [9:09 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Did catch another legendary core in the daily offers for 4k gold, so that's.. 56 to go I think? 😄 [9:10 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Just finished the pvp reward track for this season, getting me another epic core as well, and I think I'm now a rare core away from trading in a bunch of stuff for a new free legendary. So that'll help. [9:11 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: October login reward track has just started, so it'll be a while until we get to the good stuff. [9:11 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Few more weeks until the Hallow's End event, I wonder how that'll boost my progress! [9:14 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: WoW: [9:14 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: More raiding, including my first kill of the lair-boss, which got me a new decor as well 🙂 [9:15 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: As well as more heroic raiding wherein I got a new heroic weapon and my first heroic tier-pieces! Now at 300 ilevel, and still plenty more to come 🙂 [9:17 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: More brewfesting for me, as I got all remaining pieces from the new colors of the brewset. I also got the achievement for donating 10 gold to all the barrel tabs in the Midnight zones, and got enough brewfest tokens to buy one of each of the brewfest decors in the housing area. So pretty much what I wanted from this year's Brewfest 🙂 [9:19 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And finally a bit more questing towards the coiled isle, as I sought out some tablets and then did my first run of the Maisara Caverns dungeon, to get more scrolls of knowledge. Next up will be some drama I'm sure, and then we move to the second story-arc. At last. [9:26 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: And that's my report for the week 🙂 [9:29 AM]Ar-Pharazon-V: Namarie! [October 7, 2026 [8:05 PM]Varda: Thanks, Phar. 🙂